Corrections

Published: December 21, 2006

Because of an editing error, a front-page profile on Oct. 12 of Eliot Spitzer, then the Democratic candidate for governor of New York, referred incorrectly to President William McKinley, whose vice presidential running mate, Theodore Roosevelt, is one of Mr. Spitzer's political role models. McKinley was not William C.; he had no middle initial. A reader called and pointed out the error shortly after the article ran, but the message did not reach the appropriate editors. The reader sent a follow-up e-mail message on Sunday.